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Here are some of the most popular inspiring environment movements from India.
8 Extremely Powerful and Inspiring Environment Movements From India For the sake of conservation of the environment and improving environment’s state, environmental movements or the green movements take place.
There have been a number of environment movements in India and following are the 8 most powerful and inspiring of all.
In 1983, the issue was re-examined and in 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi finally inaugurated the Silent Valley National Park.
Narmada Bachao Andolan Image Source : js.newsx.com Narmada Bachao Andolan is an environmental movement directed against the number of large dams being built across the Narmada River.
Appiko Movement This is a yet another revolutionary environmental movement that was initiated for environmental conservation in India.
Inspired by the Chipko Movement in Uttarakhand, the Appiko Movement was a way that the villagers of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka State found to save their forests.
Navdanya, an Organic Movement Navdanya is an India-based NGO that is renowned for promoting biodiversity conservation, organic farming, biodiversity and the process of seed saving.
Government of India had to dismiss its decision because of the strong resistance of people.
5 – Tips to be eco-friendly every day Saving environment is not at all a difficult task.

And, unsurprisingly, its inhabitants have been ahead of the curve when it comes to beauty trends.
“In India, Ayurveda, or ‘the science of life’ encourages us to think about beauty as a holistic concept rather than looking at our body as a series of disconnected causes and effects,” says Michelle Ranavat, founder of Ranavat Botanics.
A 360-degree approach “In India, it’s all about a 360-degree approach to beauty,” says Rooshy Roy, co-founder of Aavrani, a skin-care brand influenced by Indian beauty.
It’s not just in the way you look, but your mental health, and if you’re tired.
“Mindfulness is a big part of the equation, as well as meditation—it’s a way to promote the holistic approach to beauty that’s about a way of life.” “We see our skin as a result of what your body is going through and believe in treating the full picture and not the symptoms.” —Michelle Ranavat Ranavat echoes the sentiment, emphasizing “treating the full picture and not the symptoms.” From an Ayurvedic perspective, those in India sometimes even look at doshas—your unique mix of the elements of air, fire, water, space, and earth—to determine diet and beauty practices.
“Most of our beauty ingredients are integrated into our cuisine as well,” says Roy.
Super-nutrition for your skin In reality, there are thousands of Ayurvedic ingredients that are used in India because the country has such rich biodiversity, according to Ranavat.
“Indian women use almond oil all of the time for hyperpigmentation, dark circles, and to minimize puffiness naturally,” says Roy.
“Coconut oil is everywhere—I know it’s been around for a while but for us, it’s in our hair, in our bodies, it’s in the food.
We use it as a hair mask—it’s huge in India.” Besides turmeric, there’s tea tree oil, which Roy says is widely used as an acne-fighting ingredient that calms skin, and neem, another antibacterial and antiviral.

The IEA’s Coal 2018 report finds that global coal demand grew by 1 percent in 2017 after two years of decline.
In other words, global coal demand is growing, but is still below “peak” levels seen in 2014.
This year’s six-year forecast is the first to project a small decline in global coal demand by 2021—suggesting IEA is moving away from forecasting ongoing growth in demand. ‘Two Europes’ The projected plateau and slow decline of global demand in the coming years is partly the result of efforts to move away from coal in western Europe and North America, the authors say.
Differences in coal phase-out policy in countries across Europe.
Across the EU, coal consumption declined by 1.1 percent to 627m tonnes in 2017.
The report projects that, in the EU, coal demand will drop 2.5 percent per year, from 325m tonnes of coal equivalent (mtce) in 2017 to 280 mtce in 2023.
This rise was largely fueled by an increase in coal-fired power generation, the report says.
These measures, along with China’s commitment to investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, led the IEA to project an overall decline in demand in China—despite the growth seen in 2017.
This year, the IEA has once again cut its forecast for coal demand growth in India.

Future shock How do we feed the world’s growing population without wrecking the earth?
It’s a question that looks especially urgent given estimates that some 9.8 billion people will inhabit the planet by 2050, up from 7.6 billion now.
Without improving techniques and technology, feeding all of them would require putting an area twice the size of India under plow and pasture while emitting as much carbon as 13,000 coal plants running nonstop for a year, according to a report published on Wednesday by the World Resources Institute.
The Washington D.C.-based think tank has been working on this report for the last six years, looking for a solution to our existential triple challenge: feed everyone and shrink agricultural emissions to keep the world from heating more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, all without clearing more land for farming.
The WRI’s report lays out a way that everyone could get enough to eat in 2050, even as we turn farmland into forest and allow carbon-sucking trees to spread their leaves over an area larger than Australia.
By eating less meat, leveling off population growth, reducing waste, and phasing out biofuels, we could reduce the amount of additional food needed by half: But diminishing demand for meat by getting more people to go vegan just isn’t enough.
“We wanted to focus on things that were realistic and achievable.” If we also develop better seeds and animal breeds and use existing farm and pasture-land more intensively, we could shrink our agricultural footprint by 800 million hectares, an area bigger than Texas.
That’s important, because the world needs to cover at least one Texas with trees to keep temperatures below 1.5 degrees of warming.
Pulling all this off seems daunting, but the researchers divided the action needed into a 22-item “menu” with discrete recommendations like eating less beef and lamb, and breeding crops that can withstand higher temperatures.
The report says if those funds were diverted to programs that reduce food waste, squeeze more food from the ground, and study how to improve soil health, the world could solve this three-headed monster of a problem.

Wash your clothes, or flush the toilet?
An estimated 21 major cities could exhaust their groundwater supplies within two years, government advisors believe.
In the past month, Shimla, in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, has emerged as the frontline of the emergency.
“There is climate change all over India and the world,” says Jai Ram Thakur, the Himachal Pradesh chief minister.
Others say Shimla is an example of how negligence can create a water crisis, one they warn will be repeated in cities and villages across India.
It is a lack of vision’ Hours after he was sworn in as the mayor of Shimla in 2012, Sanjay Chauhan asked to visit the Giri river, one of six major sources of the city’s water supply.
Last year, more than 18 million tourists visited the city.
He compares Shimla to Cape Town, the South African city that narrowly avoided running out of water this year after officials raised warnings and citizens restricted their use.
“In India, you would never even get a prediction.
The water would just go.” Officials in Shimla maintain the crisis was exaggerated.

Leading Indian thinktank Niti Aayog warned in a report this month that 600 million citizens faced high to extreme water stress.
It did not have data for Jammu & Kashmir, the state the Indus flows through into Pakistan, but drinking water shortages have been reported.
In Pakistan, the meteorological department has issued a drought warning across most of the country.
Reservoirs are low and farmers planting less cotton in the parched soil, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Sherry Rehman, opposition leader in Pakistan’s senate, told Climate Home News the two countries should treat it as a security priority.
With pressures of Indian dam-building upriver, population growth and climate change, the agrarian economy is now stretched at a 30-day water reserve capacity compared to the 1,000-day recommended standard.
“Our per capita availability of water has already dropped; we are using 77% of our available water resources so in that context at least having a water policy is a good omen.” Fears for water security are an ongoing source of tension with India, which controls water levels through a series of upriver dams.
“It is particularly important for Pakistan and India to address climate change in every forum available, including the Indus Waters Treaty, considering that we both share a depleting water basin,” said Rehman, who is a member of the left-wing Pakistan People’s Party.
“So those can have very major implications for the food security and also the livelihoods of the downstream population in Pakistan.” Khalid added climate change was increasing the strain on a water treaty that has withstood three conflicts between the South Asian nations.
“South Asian security policy makers need to appreciate that non-traditional security threats such as climate change pose as real a risk as traditional security threats.”

Water shortages are likely to be the key environmental challenge of this century, scientists from Nasa have warned, as new data has revealed a drying-out of swaths of the globe between the tropics and the high latitudes, with 19 hotspots where water depletion has been dramatic.
Source: Nasa The Caspian Sea was also found to be showing strong declines owing to similar forces, which is resulting in a shrinking shoreline.
2017 2000 The comprehensive study, the first of its kind, took data from the Nasa Grace (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission to track trends in freshwater from 2002 to 2016 across the globe.
“What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change.
The new paper’s authors said it was too soon to confirm whether their observations were definitely the result of global warming, but said their results showed a “clear human fingerprint” on the global water cycle.
Marc Stutter, of the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, who was not involved with the study, said: “Such new data add insight into how we manage both obvious surface waters and hidden subsurface water stores [as] the satellite techniques see vital hidden water reserves under our feet, much like an x-ray to see the health of our unseen water reserves.” He said it provided an early warning that could allow better management of water resources across the world, which was needed.
In northern India, groundwater extraction for irrigation of crops such as wheat and rice have caused a rapid decline in available water, despite rainfall being normal throughout the period studied.
In Iraq and Syria, widespread over-reliance on groundwater has resulted from the construction by Turkey of 22 dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, over the last three decades.
Jonathan Farr, senior policy analyst at the charity WaterAid, said governments must take note of the findings and increase their role in preserving water resources and providing freshwater to people in a sustainable manner.
We just need to manage it, and that has to be done at a local level.” Providing access to clean water provides knock-on benefits to health, education, equity and the economy, he added, so investment in water assets yields both economic and social dividends.

India added more energy capacity from renewable energy sources last year than from conventional sources like coal for the first time, an important breakthrough for a country that struggles with high greenhouse gas emissions and deadly air pollution.
Between April 2017 and March 2018, the subcontinent added about 11,788 megawatts of renewable energy capacity and only 5,400 megawatts of capacity from fossil fuels or large hydropower projects, Quartz India reported Thursday.
The vast majority of that that added capacity—9,009 megawatts—came from ground solar power.
A total of 1,766 megawatts came from wind power, 352 came from rooftop solar and 657 megawatts came from biomass, small-scale hydropower and waste-to-energy.
The government had set an added wind power capacity target of 4,000 megawatts and a rooftop solar capacity target of 1,000 megawatts.
Delhi is the most polluted mega-city in the world, with pollution levels 10 times worse than WHO guidelines.
The Indian Supreme Court warned on Tuesday that the Taj Mahal is turning brown and green due to air pollution and to excrement from insects attracted to the polluted Yamuna river nearby, The Independent reported Wednesday.
It seems you are helpless.
It has to be saved.
You can get help from experts from outside to assess the damage done and restore it,” Supreme Court judges Madan Lokur and Deepak Gupta said, ordering the state government to fix the problem.

Shrinking reservoirs in Morocco, India, Iraq and Spain could spark the next “day zero” water crisis, according to the developers of a satellite early warning system for the world’s 500,000 dams.
Drastic conservation measures have forestalled that moment in South Africa, but dozens of other countries face similar risks from rising demand, mismanagement and climate change, say the World Resources Institute (WRI).
The last time the dam was so depleted, grain production fell by half and more than 700,000 people were affected, it said.
Pressure on this water source will grow later this year when a new water transfer project links it to the city of Marrakech.
Water levels are historically low at Al Massira Dam (Morocco) Standfirst … surface area (sq km) 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Guardian graphic In Iraq, the Mosul Dam has seen a more protracted decline but it is also now down 60% from its peak in the 1990s as a result of low rainfall and competing demand from Turkish hydropower projects upstream on the Tigris and Euphrates.
As in Syria and increasingly also Iraq, water stress has added to conflict and been a driver for relocations of people from the countryside.
Water levels at Mosul Dam (Iraq) Standfirst … surface area (sq km) 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Guardian graphic Tensions have also been apparent in India over the water allocations for two reservoirs connected by the Narmada river.
Water levels at Indira Sagar Dam (India) Standfirst … surface area (sq km) 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Guardian graphic The social risks are lower in industrialised countries that are less dependent on agriculture and more economically resilient.
Water levels at Buendia Dam (Spain) Standfirst … surface area (sq km) 0 10 20 30 40 2005 2010 2015 Guardian graphic All four dams are in the mid-latitudes, the geographic bands on either side of the tropics where climate change is expected to make droughts more frequent and protracted.
“There are lots of potential Cape Towns in the making.

Animal lovers celebrated late last year when the last two known dancing bears in Nepal were rescued from being forced to perform for spectators.
But World Animal Protection, an international nonprofit that helped facilitate the rescue, says the aftermath has turned into a tragedy.
Bear dancing, in which bears are forced to perform for spectators ― and typically involves painful training methods ― is illegal in Nepal and is widely considered cruel.
Instead, they wound up at The Central Zoo in Jawalakhel, Nepal.
Neil D’Cruze, a wildlife biologist who works with World Animal Protection, told HuffPost he found out in early March that the bears had been moved from Nepal’s Parsa National Park — where they were temporarily living after their rescue — to the zoo.
The move happened “without our knowledge,” he said.
A zoo representative confirmed that the bears were at the facility, and said Sridevi died due to a “poor health condition.” He said that Rangila is in “good condition,” but acknowledged the bear was showing signs of stress.
The bear “is not showing any clinical signs except for some loose stool now and again which may be due to the liquid feed it has been consuming or may be also due to stress,” zoo project manager Chiranjibi Prasad Pokheral told HuffPost in an email.
“It has been showing some stereotypical behaviour like swaying of the head from side to side and occasionally biting itself.” Rangila is “provided with termite or ant mounds from time to time” for enrichment, and his food also includes “bread, milk, egg, honey/molasses, sugarcane, apple, banana, seasonal fruits, and peanuts,” Pokheral said.
In the meantime, World Animal Protection and the Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal are desperately trying to get Rangila transferred to the Wildlife SOS bear sanctuary in Agra, India.

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